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Spike in email spam with shortened URLs
Email security provider MessageLabs has issued a warning of a dramatic spike in the number of spam emails that include shortened web addresses. These truncated URLs, provided by the likes of tinyurl
Hong Kong is number one in email spam
A report published by security vendor Symantec has bestowed the dubious honor, of having the highest spam level to Hong Kong. Its amount of email spam has apparently grown by 2.4 percent to reach
Researchers: Image spam is on the rise again
In a blog post last week, researchers from IBM noted a sharp spike in the amount of image spam that has been disseminated since the last week in April. Based on their analysis, the properties of this
Can you really prevent spam attacks?
IT shops may have lost one possible defense in their struggle to keep ahead of spam that now regularly floods their email boxes and attacks their systems. The Virginia Supreme Court ruled last week
Get ready for cell phone spam
Anthony Melone, Verizon Wireless's chief technology officer, started getting complaints last March from customers about unsolicited text messages that were flooding the network. He and his Verizon
Record year for email spam
Not that any CIO wants to hear this, but spammers ran rampant in 2007. And if you never saw any spam on your system, you had a great spam filter or you were very lucky. In 2007, spam accounted for a
FTC targets spam
The Federal Trade Commission is taking a hard look at the next generation of spam and what companies can do to fight the impact of malicious emails and phishing. In a new report called "The Next
Poll: Businesses don't enforce network abuse policies
Most CIOs believe that other departments, such as Human Resources, don't understand the role they must play in enforcing network policies and educating employees about acceptable uses of the
Email delivery demands work
When email emerged as a marketing and business communications tool, it was a free-for-all situation. But today it's anything but, with IT working harder than ever to get company email delivered
Using various 'lists' to stop spam
Battling spam and spyware is a daily fight, and as tech leaders know there are lots of different approaches and technologies to grab. One big category is the list: blacklist, whitelist and
